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General Coochie
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Posted - 2008.02.20 22:13:00 -
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My alt manufactures I buy BPCs to do the manufacturing. Sometimes I find a good offer for BPCs and afk there to buy them and AFK back while eating, doing the dishes, etc.
Worked excellent so far but got suicided twice today. I lost maybe 10-20 mill total, isk wise it isn't a loss that bothers me. But buying new BPC's is really frustrating.
First loss I had 5 dominix blueprints with 1 run each in cargo hold. Seriously who hauls 5 dominix BPOs in a shuttle afk like that? I mean ok if it was one dominix blueprint or some different ones. But when its 5 what are the odds for them being BPOs? So Second time I put a BM in cargo hold "Im just hauling BPC's, wouldn't do it afk otherwise"
Obviously that didn't help. I snapped in local, the guy actually gave me my BPCs back.
I see one option: not doing it on prime time like I did now. But meh, I wanna do it when it suits me.
Any suicider out there that wanna give me some tips on how to not get blown up while hauling stuff that isn't valuable . I really wanna do this afk. I realize not doing it afk is the best solution but wtf. Its a shuttle hauling like 10mill worth of stuff. I also hate to see suiciders wasting their ships and time on me when I got nothing in my cargo hold that can drop to be happy about.
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Posted - 2008.02.20 22:21:00 -
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 Originally by: Dianeces
I'll give you some hints. Prefer not to do it publicly. I'm online right now, shoot me a convo.
Gotta go to bed now, Ill eve mail ya tomorrow, thanks.
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Posted - 2008.02.21 12:05:00 -
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The problem here is what many of the repliers seem to not realize.
* I got nothing of value in the cargo hold. No goodies, no isk, no reason to suicide except the hope of me having BPOs.
* Its a minor loss both for me and the suicider. (not taking wasted time into account)
* If I was hauling something of value I would never get suicided because I know how to BEST avoid it as I all ready said.
However the BEST way here would be for me being able to afk my ship as I usually do but with some precaution making me a less interesting target.
Best thing for me personally would be if the suicider could be sure of that it was BPCs. I know this isn't possible and probably will never be introduced to eve for a number of good reasons.
My alt got crappy space ship command skills, It can't even fly a tier 3 frig. However a speed fitted cruiser with extenders in the mids seem as the best option so far.
Thanks for the serious replies though, appreciate it.
Just got an idea when reading a reply about contracts. If I make a contract for myself (or with an alt). And accept it. Will I get the items in one of those boxes? And will the contents of that box be scannable? Or will the one scanning only see the box?
If that works would it make me a more or less juicy target?
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Posted - 2008.02.21 12:40:00 -
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Originally by: Dianeces
Cargo scanners see right through the packaging of a courier contract.
Thanks
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Posted - 2008.02.21 21:53:00 -
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Originally by: PsyBoRG
if you dont care much about speed and just plan to do it afk untill its done u could make a punisher with 11000+ effective hp sure someone might take a pop shot at it but ho wont kill it in a bomber which is tbh what most ppl use now i got no clue how much punishment it can take vs someone who is throwing more isk at suiciding but im pretty sure they would not bother with you honestly dont understand why anyone bother's doing it on cargo worth less then 1bill but meh guess stupid ppl do it to
anyways thats the only t1 frig option i could think off that would do it afk'ish and survive stupid ppl 
I like, thanks very good advice there.
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Posted - 2008.02.23 11:40:00 -
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Originally by: Niivvy
Edited by: Niivvy on 22/02/2008 11:33:32
i point you to this, the tips and tricks section of the player guide Tips and tricks eve guides
and then point you to the very first part of it, it says
'Don't play the game in AFK mode. This game is not designed with this kind of playing style in mind and you should NEVER consider your ship and character safe while being away from your computer.'
i say no more
Thanks for your extremely helpful advice! I didn't know, this is all new to me!
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